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The Common Room / Re: Old bailey trial records
« on: Wednesday 29 May 24 20:06 BST (UK)  »
Definitely interested in the answer to that.

One of mine also comes up on the Old Bailey... not as a victim though... He shattered someone's skull in a drunken fight  :-X

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Northumberland / Re: Chasing BELLS
« on: Wednesday 29 May 24 12:02 BST (UK)  »
Benj Snr died 1868 (dob 1799) Longbenton.

From the dates, I think the 1877 death is likely Benjamin BELL 1808, son of a different Benjamin BELL who may or may not be related. Unfortunately there are more Benjamins in the area than I expected!

Thank you for looking. I appreciate it.

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Difficult surname 1872 baptism register
« on: Friday 24 May 24 09:48 BST (UK)  »
I did see the NORRISH family while looking at any potential family in Hunslet, but didn't connect that it could be them. William NORRISH appears to be from Devon so still might have had a very different accent!

1871 the family (with Elizabeth 1869 and Annie 1870) are in Moorville(?) St, Hunslet. The residence for both at the marriage was East Lane.

I suppose as the transcriber you've got to write what you see in any case, even if the surname was actually intended to be NORRISH? Are you able to add a personal note to whatever record you are making?

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Handwriting Deciphering & Recognition / Re: Difficult surname 1872 baptism register
« on: Wednesday 22 May 24 19:23 BST (UK)  »
Wonder if it is something like "Lalley" or "Lawley" but transcribed from an accent!

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The Common Room / Re: Cause of Death "Uknown"
« on: Tuesday 21 May 24 20:52 BST (UK)  »
This puts me in mind of my own grandmother, who went into hospital with a broken arm after a fall and died while there from an unrelated infection. The fall might have put your ancestor in the hospital but later died from something that wasn't connected, hence the 'unknown'. I suppose this is the more blunt way of saying some of the previous causes, such as "called by God"...

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Unnamed fathers .outside the box thinking
« on: Friday 10 May 24 10:02 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: brigidmac on Thursday 09 May 24 13:02 BST (UK)
No they don't need to have fathered another child .

Agreed, I've found the right family and considered that to be the closest I'm likely to get.

Technically if the bio-father had more children one should in theory have higher cM matches to them rather than the bio-uncles (if any), but DNA is so finicky that I've had cousins of the same relation to a target individual have vastly different cM amounts to each other. The closer to present day and the older gen the people matching, the more reliable, but in my cases as long as I have the father's parents the tree still works. Narrowing it down that far does often require a lot of matches though, to join parts of the tree or eliminate others, unless the father is suspected in the first place.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Unnamed fathers .outside the box thinking
« on: Tuesday 07 May 24 20:34 BST (UK)  »
Giving a family member's details in place of an unknown father is pretty typical. One of my others gave her mother's surname and her stepfather's forename for hers. I've heard of plenty giving their grandfather's name.

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Ancestral Family Tree DNA Testing / Re: Unnamed fathers .outside the box thinking
« on: Sunday 05 May 24 22:08 BST (UK)  »
I have three direct line illegitimacies- one has both parents named (but I can't find any information about the mother), one has a surname as a middle name and we already had a theory before DNA proved it (but down to one of four brothers) and the other had no name mentioned at all on any source.

I believe I'm making progress on the last one- I match with several descendants of his marriage from different children, as well as a) the family his daughter married into and b) his wife's side of the family. There's a whole group of DNA matches that do not match his wife's side or son-in-law's side that do match with his descendants- and they have a shared common ancestor that is not in his mother's family. I think this common couple is our target man's grandparents. I'm hoping that eventually I'll get a match with a marry-in family so I know which branch he comes from.

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Northumberland / Re: Chasing BELLS
« on: Saturday 04 May 24 12:25 BST (UK)  »
Quote from: fiddlerslass on Saturday 04 May 24 12:08 BST (UK)
There are 4 Bell children, all "not born in county" living with a Telford family in Kelloe Co Durham in 1841

Ref HO107/313/12 page 6 and 7

Well spotted, thank you! Haggerston is missing, but that's John, Frances, Benjamin and Henry. John is another candidate but I haven't been able to follow him either, so that's at least confirmation he was alive in 1841.

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